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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!umd5.umd.edu!mark From: mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 stray characters on console? Date: 7 Jun 1994 21:14:16 GMT Organization: Zeno, IPST, University of Maryland Lines: 32 Message-ID: <2t2nv8$4g5@umd5.umd.edu> References: <2t28i2$6tf@spock.dis.cccd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: elea.umd.edu In article <2t28i2$6tf@spock.dis.cccd.edu>, Michael Peer <mpeer@cccd.edu> wrote: >The question I have is I am getting stray characters on my screen, mostly >% and ' characters. At times they even stay there, even though I scroll >the screen. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ >Some information on my system: >IBM CGA monitor >clone CGA card The fact that the characters don't always move when you scroll the screen, and that you don't get them in telnet sessions, and that you have a CGA (which is likely very old), makes me suspect this: Your video board is flaking out. Old hardware does that sometimes. Try another video board if you can get one. It seems unlikely to me that there is a software cause for your problem. >p.s. You can have a good laugh about my 386SX, but its the best I could >do with no idea if I would ever be able to get a real UNIX system >working, I wonder if the slow cpu is part of the problem? I'm not laughing. I once used Unix on a PDP 11/23 with 128k of memory. It was what I could get. Likewise, you use what you can get. Anybody who can't handle that is welcome to buy you a new computer. :) I don't think the "slow" CPU is a problem. (I mean, other than taking a long time to do things... :) Mark S.